The LA Times reports that majorities in major European countries support banning the wearing of the burqa in public. The burqa is a veil that covers everything save the eyes. And in England a top Muslim cleric issued a "fatwa" (decree) unequivocally condemning terrorism as un-Islamic....
"Terrorism is terrorism, violence is violence, and it has no place in Islamic teaching, and no justification can be provided for it, or any kind of excuses or ifs or buts," Mr. Tahir-ul-Qadri said at a news conference in London. "Good intentions cannot convert a wrong into good; they cannot convert an evil into good."
Since 9/11 such condemnations have been rare.
Bottom Line. However belatedly, Europe is taking increasing note of Islamic militant cultural inroads. And more Islamic clerics anathematizing terror is another good thing.
Letter from the Capitol, LFTC, 9/11, National Security, Terrorism, Homeland Security, Foreign Policy
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